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Mark - ch 14 v 1 - 20
- Now the feast of the pasch, and of the Azymes was after two days; and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might by some wile lay hold on him, and kill him.
- But they said: Not on the festival day, lest there should be a tumult among the people.
- And when he was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, and was at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of precious spikenard: and breaking the alabaster box, she poured it out upon his head.
- Now there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said: Why was this waste of the ointment made?
- For this ointment might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
- But Jesus said: Let her alone, why do you molest her? She hath wrought a good work upon me.
- For the poor you have always with you: and whensoever you will, you may do them good: but me you have not always.
- She hath done what she could: she is come beforehand to anoint my body for burial.
- Amen, I say to you, wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, that also which she hath done, shall be told for a memorial of her.
- And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to the chief priests, to betray him to them.
- Who hearing it were glad; and they promised him they would give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.
- Now on the first day of the unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the pasch, the disciples say to him: Whither wilt thou that we go, and prepare for thee to eat the pasch?
- And he sendeth two of his disciples, and saith to them: Go ye into the city; and there shall meet you a man carrying a pitcher of water, follow him;
- And whithersoever he shall go in, say to the master of the house, The master saith, Where is my refectory, where I may eat the pasch with my disciples?
- And he will shew you a large dining room furnished; and there prepare ye for us.
- And his disciples went their way, and came into the city; and they found as he had told them, and they prepared the pasch.
- And when evening was come, he cometh with the twelve.
- And when they were at table and eating, Jesus saith: Amen I say to you, one of you that eateth with me shall betray me.
- But they began to be sorrowful, and to say to him one by one: Is it I?
- Who saith to them: One of the twelve, who dippeth with me his hand in the dish.
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